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Doctor Dre & Flavor Flav, Snapping Contest Standoff and Result (1 of 2)

1980s

Garden City, Nassau County, New York, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black and white photograph of Doctor Dré & Flavor Flav. The two are pictured in an interior office of a radio station with several other people. Dré is on the left side of the image, leaning against a desk and looking up. He wears a white jersey with the number [65]. He has a bag of records over his shoulder and holds zipper pouch or bag in front of him with one hand. A wall of cubby shelves filled with papers is behind him. Flavor Flav stands to the right of the image, looking at Dré. He wears a black baseball cap with white text, a white polo shirt, and black shorts with white text. He holds some fliers, a cassette tape and a joint in his hands. Behind him is a wood paneled wall with handwritten signs and a wall clock. One of the signs stars [ALL F.M. ENGINEERS].

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Catalog reference: 2015.132.32

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